MSP 2011 Ski Feature – “Attack of La Niña”
The Colorado ski season is just around the corner, and I’m ready for the snow to fly after finishing color on Matchstick Productions’ “Attack of La Niña”. The feature was shot on location in Colorado, Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and California, during the 2010-2011 season, one of the snowiest in recent history.
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CCT+Media Pantry for Rocky Mountain Health Plans
A rainy and snowy Colorado day won’t stop this year’s production. We started in the knee-deep powder at Loveland Ski Resort; moved on to gorgeous interiors in rainy Idaho Springs; and now we’re dancing with a cowboy at in the Highlands. CCT will shoot two commercials over the next two days in various front range [...]
Colorado Lottery – Cool Millions
Cactus put together a great team for this recent Colorado Lottery spot. Twist director Matt Pittroff shot Arri ALEXA. Matt Struck and Eric Anolin worked the AVID cut and Baselight color. Seductive animation by the team at Fuse.
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K\H – Pinnacle Bank 2010
In 2010, Karsh\Hagan tapped the talents of director Tony McNamara of Futuristic Films, and the team at Crosspoint to deliver another beautiful broadcast campaign for Pinnacle Bank. Tony shot Super 35mm, and the negative was transferred with a flat-pass look to HDCam. Tom Welborn edited in AVID Media Composer and Eric Anolin worked [...]
Wyoming Department of Health
Sukle Advertising & Design partnered with Futuristic Films to produce and shoot a series of spots pleading to the smokers of Wyoming. The spots were shot on Canon 5DMkII HDSLR and off-lined at Futuristic. The spots were then color-graded at Crosspoint by Senior Colorist, Eric Anolin, in Baselight. Final Cut Pro conform and online edit [...]
On Set: Cactus/Colorado Lottery
Matt and I are tech consulting for the latest Cactus/Colorado Lottery spot. This will be our first project shot on the ARRI Alexa.
The production company, Twist, will record ProRes 4444 LogC to SxS cards, cloned to LaCie ruggeds. Matt will offline and finish in AVID MC5 via AMA. I’ll conform an AAF to the original [...]
Colorado Lottery – Operation
Colorado Lottery – Operation from Crosspoint on Vimeo.
Cactus enlisted LAIKA/house director Mark Gustafson to create flawless stop-motion animation for the newest Colorado Lottery Monopoly Scratch game. Eric Anolin color graded uncompressed 10-bit quicktime files in Baselight, and delivered HDCam and Digital Beta masters for final audio sweetening at Rocky Mountain Recorders.
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Westfield Company introduces 1800 Larimer
Crosspoint and blue onion provided beginning-to-end production and post for Westfield Company’s opening of 1800 Larimer, the newest addition to the Downtown Denver skyline. A technologically-advanced office tower, 1800 Larimer is LEED Platinum certified and represents the future of urban office space.
The project was truly all hands on-deck: Scott Tuke shot interiors, interviews, [...]
Victory “Fuel it”
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Integer Group chose Post Modern, Coupe Studios and Crosspoint for the latest commercial for Victory Motorcycles. The footage was shot entirely on RED ONE at 4K. Jason Sedmak (Post Modern) cut on Avid Media Composer (using Metafuze to transcode the .r3d files to .mxf). Eric Anolin conformed the 4K .r3d files + [...]
Boston Market – Lunch for Lunch
Cameron Christopher Thomas Advertising recently recruited Walk the Line Films and Crosspoint to execute two new Boston Market spots. Walk the Line Films’ Director of Photography, Roger Sackett, shot all food footage on a Sony EX1 using a lens adapter to accommodate the use of film primes. The results are stunning and look remarkably close [...]
Focus on the Family Tebow
Focus on the Family partnered with Tim Tebow and his family to produce the organization’s first Super Bowl commercial. Steve Vidano shot on a RED camera; and he and Paul Murphy edited on Final Cut Pro. Crosspoint’s Baselight color grading system gave them the power to conform the Final Cut timeline from the raw [...]
Globus COSMOS
Luke Bishop shot at Crosspoint on our Sony EX3 camera. He edited the footage and designed the stop-motion effect in Final Cut Pro. Eric Anolin graded the final sequence in Baselight and rendered a new .mov to FCP. Chris Walsh found the music, recorded the VO and worked the final mix. The final spot was delivered on Digital Beta.
Powerball Break the Chain
This project was a start-to-finish collaboration with the creative teams at Cactus, The Sweet Shop and Ring of Fire. Eric Anolin was on location for the one day shoot (3K RED). Matt Struck cut a :30 and :60 in Avid MC Adrenaline. Eric delivered color-graded HD .dpx files from Baselight for vfx at Ring of Fire. Donald Corsiglia finished graphics and final conform with vfx in Avid DS.
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Colorado Lottery Birth of a Ticket
Futuristic Films shot on 35mm film, transferred to HDCam SR at Lightpress. After the first day of rough cut, the creative process was at a standstill. Matt Struck set aside the storyboards and presented a completely different cut, that eventually became the final version with agency, production company and client input. It’s always good to hear a round of applause coming from the AVID suite!
Crosspoint Announces the Addition of a Baselight ONE Colour Grading System
Crosspoint is announcing a complete HD workflow solution with the addition of a Sony HDCam SR deck and Filmlight’s Baselight ONE color grading system. Baselight completes a start-to-finish, non-linear, data-centric HD workflow at Crosspoint. The Baselight system allows you to grade SD, HD and 2K footage natively, and in real-time. The multi-node architecture developed by [...]
